tulip time....better late than never

It's a commonly known fact among gardeners that you are supposed to plant tulip bulbs in Fall.

The month of October is ideal, but November will do in a pinch.

How about January?

January 6th, to be exact!

I just couldn't get the bulbs planted last Fall.

We were too busy being crazy.

So last week, the first week of January, when the weather was SO unusually warm, I figured why not?

The ground isn't frozen.

The bulbs sitting in my basement look ready to grow,

so I ordered asked the boys to dig holes for me and I dropped the bulbs in.

Just in time apparently, since the very next morning it looked like this:

Boo snow.

Yay tulip bulbs.